Pot of gold in the neighbour's house...

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Hi all … this was a very vivid rainbow (with a bit of a secondary one) due to generally dark cloud cover and low sun angle. The bight red tiles are a distraction, not to mention the TV antenna. I was proficient enough with neither retouch nor spot correction modules to achieve results I was happy with to remove the antenna, and I just masked the red tiles and turned down saturation and brightness a little.

How else might you process this?

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Thanks for posting
dt 3.4.1


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Antenna/Dust bunny removal: GIMP

I’m having the opposite problem: Fence and roof are to dark and had to lift them a bit. Arguably it needs to be lifted a bit more.

About the removal of items/dust bunnies: It does depend a bit on the situation and/or items but in general I use GIMP/Krita to do this. A few minor dust bunnies or a small item can be done from the RAW editor, but anything else needs to be done in a more specialized tool. If printing the end-result is involved there’s no discussion about that in my opinion.

EDIT: A word.

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Lens compensation + defringe of purple edges + demosaic changed to remove jagged edges (see roof tiles) and a bit cooler temperature to remove purple cast in the skies.

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my proposal


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Development always a little lighter because the paper print is always a little darker.

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Your printer needs color calibration. Or try commercial turboprint driver, it does very good job in doing this hard job for you.


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